Finance Representative (Modern ERP Program) – (Fixed Term)

Finance Representative (Modern ERP Program) – (Fixed Term)

Why explore

• An opportunity to work with stakeholders across different levels

• Contribute meaningfully to the risk and assurance framework of our business

• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

• Fixed Term till June 2027

About the role

We are looking for a Finance Representative (Modern ERP Program) to join our Commercial Finance team here in Rio Tinto’s Commercial Hub in Singapore.

The experienced and motivated Finance Representative will join the Modern ERP program team, supporting Rio Tinto’s migration from the current SAP platform to S/4HANA. This role will act as the lead Commercial Finance representative, ensuring that all finance processes, controls, and system requirements for Commercial are correctly designed, validated, and integrated into the future ERP landscape.

You will be responsible for defining the future-state design, embedding critical financial and operational controls, and ensuring successful end-to-end testing and deployment. This is a pivotal role that shapes the future of Commercial Finance’s operating and control environment under S/4 HANA.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a professional who possesses a genuine desire to improve and enhance processes by taking an end-to-end view and incorporating risks and controls.

Reporting to the SOX Assurance Manager, you will be responsible for the following:

ERP Design & Process Integration

• Represent Commercial Finance as part of the Community of Practice (CoP) for processes and data within the MERP program.

• Define the future “to-be” state (particularly across Contract-to-Cash, Reporting and planning process) to be aligned with business objectives.

• Identify process gaps and controls to be implemented in the future system.

• Contribute to Key Design Decisions, impact assessments, RAID items, and project documentation.

• Provide sign-off on process designs and ensure Commercial Finance requirements are integrated into S/4HANA.

Change Management & Stakeholder Support

• Highlight change impacts on Commercial Finance processes.

• Work closely with senior PG/Function leaders, GPO teams, and data leads to ensure alignment.

Controls, Governance & Compliance

• Identify and resolve process and data gaps (pricing, orders, contracts, revenue flows, controls).

• Ensure key financial controls within Contract-to-Cash, invoicing, revenue recognition, price governance, and credit are embedded in the S/4 design.

• Enable process standardisation, improvement and automation.

• Lead SOX readiness assessments for new system implementations and evaluate potential impact to the SOX program due to proposed systems and/or process changes.

• Update documentation including risk and controls matrices and risk assessments.

• Champion process simplification and automation opportunities under the Modern ERP transformation agenda.

Testing, Validation & Readiness

• Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Commercial Finance processes – including scenario development, execution, and issue resolution.

• Support the finance data migration, configuration, and validation process, ensuring integrity, accuracy, and compliance of migrated financial data.

Optimise Finance Business Partner processes and practices

• Work with Group through the delivery of the modern ERP to ensure fit for purpose systems, processes and reporting.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have: 

• Bachelor and/or professional qualification e.g., MBA, ACA, CPA.

• Recent 5 to 7 years audit experience.

• Strong understanding of end-to-end Contract-to-Cash (C2C) processes, financial reporting processes and key finance controls.

• Working knowledge of management and statutory reporting processes, including data flows from transaction systems to consolidation tools.

• Ability to translate business processes into system requirements and challenge design assumptions where needed.

• Prior experience with SAP ECC, S/4HANA, or major ERP implementation highly desirable.

• Strong analytical skills, process-thinking, and attention to detail.

• High capability in working across diverse cross-functional teams.

• Strong capability to effectively prioritise and possess excellent organisational skills.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority

• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees

• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions

• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan

• Wellbeing benefits

• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

• Employee Assistance Program

• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

Where you will be working

Our Commercial function at Rio Tinto connects our product groups, customers and suppliers from mine to market. We bring together Sales & Marketing and Trading (Sell), Global Procurement (Buy), and Marine & Logistics (Move) to buy, sell and move the materials the world needs, by partnering across the value chain to optimise outcomes for our customers and the Group. Headquartered in our global Commercial hub in Singapore, and with a strong presence in Chicago, Frankfurt, Antwerp and across Asia in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul, we work as one team to deliver customer centric value, safely and sustainably.

Work at the heart of our global Commercial hub in Singapore, partnering cross‑functionally across Buy, Sell and Move to shape strategy and deliver mine‑to‑market value around the world.

Application Deadline: 26 December 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date)

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.” 

About Rio Tinto
 

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.
 

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

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